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Say goodbye to messy inks, toners, and ribbons, and say hello to zero hassle with the Snap Touch Instant Print Camera by Polaroid. This digital little wonder integrates a smart touchscreen LCD display, Bluetooth connectivity, specially designed smartphone app, and other features sure to satisfy tech-savvy photographers. The 3.5" viewfinder helps you take stunning photos, high definition video, and even self-portraits with an integrated selfie mirror. Other helpful settings include auto-timer, Photobooth, and burst mode. Best of all, Zink Zero technology lets you snap and print on the spot with Polaroid"s unique adhesive-backed 3"x5" paper. Just pick your favorite camera color, charge the powerful lithium ion battery, and get clicking!

SNAP, PRINT & SHARE? Sleek Digital Camera Features Built-In Printer So Your Photos Can Be Instantly Developed on 2? x3? Polaroid Zink Zero Ink Paper COOL TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY? 3.5? LCD Viewfinder is Great for Capturing Still Photos, HD Videos & Selfies; Easy Navigation, Photobooth & Burst Modes ZERO INK, ZERO TONER? Camera Integrates Polaroid Zink Zero Innovation; Simply Load Adhesive-Backed Paper & Watch Images Come to Life SMARTPHONE COMPATIBLE? Bluetooth-Enabled Camera Integrates Printing App for iOS & Android; Edit & Add Filters, Text, Borders, Emojis, Digital Stickers & More CHARMING DESIGN? Comes in Variety of Fun, Bold Colors; Fits in Your Pocket & Includes Handy Wrist Strap, Micro USB Cord & Paper 10-Pack The new generation of Polaroid for instant gratification.

Say goodbye to messy inks, toners, and ribbons, and say hello to zero hassle with the Snap Touch Instant Print Camera by Polaroid. This digital little wonder integrates a smart touchscreen LCD display, Bluetooth connectivity, specially designed smartphone app, and other features sure to satisfy tech-savvy photographers. The 3.5? viewfinder helps you take stunning photos, high definition video, and even self-portraits with an integrated selfie mirror. Other helpful settings include auto-timer, photobooth, and burst mode. Best of all, Zink Zero technology lets you snap and print on the spot with Polaroid? s unique adhesive-backed 3? x5? paper.

Just pick your favorite camera color, charge the powerful lithium ion battery, and get clicking! What You Get 1 Snap Touch Camera by Polaroid 1 micro USB cable Zink? photo paper 10-pack 1 wrist strap User guide Classic Polaroid convenience with a modern twist! Specs & Details Prints 2? x3? color photos 3.5? LCD touchscreen viewfinder 13MP photos 1080p/720p video Bluetooth enabled Auto timer Burst & photobooth modes Micro USB port Built-in microphone & speaker 9.8. 16 2 of 2 Micro SD card slot[up to 128GB] Micro USB port Editing app compatible with iOS & Android Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery How to Enjoy Embrace your inner photographer and get snapping Load your Zink paper and print on the spot Use the easy app to add filters, borders, and more Take a selfie, or shoot sensational HD video Share your creations online and on paper!

Polaroid’s shiny new camera with a built-in Nink printer, the Snap Touch, is available on pre-sale today, although if my experiences with it at Photokina are anything to go by, it’s probably not worth your hard-earned cash. Run the other way, and buy yourself an Instax Mini 70 instead, for the same price.

The Snap Touch is basically a Polaroid Snap digital camera surgically combined with the company’s Polaroid Zip printer, with a 3.5-inch touch-screen LCD display on the back. In theory, it’s a fantastic idea for a little camera. In practice… wait, I’m getting ahead of myself.

I wanted to love the camera, I really did, but trying to get a good feel for what the Snap Touch is capable of turned out to be an exercise in frustration.

The camera’s 13 megapixel sensor is ridiculously over spec for the little printer. Without getting too geeky here; 13 megapixels printed on a 3×2-inch print means that the camera has 1,500 dots per inch (dpi) to play with. For comparison, super high resolution magazines are typically printed at 300 dpi. I’ve seen photos shot on an iPhone 6 (8 megapixels) printed in 3×2 at 300 dpi that look unbelievably gorgeous. On paper, this should be a winning combo. In print… It wasn’t.

“I’m sorry the photo isn’t so good,” Holger Post, the boss-man at Polaroid’s German PR company told me, after I finally managed to convince him to pose with me for a selfie. “But it’s just because the lights here are terrible. They are flickering so much.”

Curious, I thought, especially given that presumably the company chose the lights on the booth, but to be fair, the lighting could have been better. I had a solution, however: Print a photo directly from my iPhone. The Snap Touch comes with a Bluetooth connection, enabling users to use it as a printer for photos taken elsewhere. Quite ingenious, really.

Mr Post wasn’t wrong… The quality of the print wasn’t overwhelmingly encouragin. Of course, the subject matter doesn’t help, but that’s not the point.

Which I thought was curious; I had read the company’s press release, which reads “Thanks to Bluetooth connectivity and integration with the Polaroid Print App, users are no longer limited to just printing photos captured by the camera itself. Using Bluetooth and the app, users can now pair the Polaroid Snap Touch with other devices such as smartphones and tablets to transform the device into an instant photoprinter. The app, available free for iOS and Android (…)”

So I tried to download it, and failed due to Amazing Wi-Fi Fail. Fair enough, that’s not Polaroid’s fault. So I went back to my hotel and downloaded the app, dug out some photos I wanted to print, and headed back to the Polaroid stand at Photokina.

That’s not completely unusual; the camera is only available on pre-order and Polaroid’s engineers still have a few weeks to get their t’s crossed and their i’s dotted.

But I still really wanted to try out the printer with a photo that wasn’t taken on the camera itself — I wanted to test the printer, after all. So I asked Stephanie if she could please print a photo from her phone. She agreed, and took a selfie of us with her Samsung S7. The photo suffered from bad lighting, of course, but on the phone’s screen, at least, it looked well-exposed, crisp, and as good as you can expect from a trade-show selfie.

After a number of attempts to actually connect to the camera using Bluetooth, she succeeded. But the app crashed. When she tried again, she was able to print off our self portrait.

I should add at this point that if I hadn’t been hell-bent on getting this print, I’d have given up a long time ago. I’ve seen some bad Bluetooth implementations in my life, and this is up there with the worst. It’s possible that Polaroid will sort that out by the time the camera ships, but it’s irrelevant: the photo quality was still woeful.

It’s not all bad, but for every good thing I can think of to say about the camera, something comes along to ruin it. It’s nice that the camera has a 3.5-inch touch screen (although the resolution and quality of the screen is significantly sub-par to every other screen I’ve used in the past year). It’s nice that the camera has Bluetooth (although it’s flaky, the Android app crashes, and there’s no iPhone support). It’s cool that the camera has a built-in printer (although it’s woefully bad). It’s nifty that the prints are also stickers so you can stick your face in interesting places. And I suppose it comes in nice colors, so there’s that.

But ultimately, no amount of sticky-backed pictures and colorful borders can save the Snap Touch from its own flaws. You already have a better camera than this thing on your phone, so you shouldn’t buy it for the camera. The printer it is, then, but that isn’t good enough either.

Polaroid isn’t meant to be a bastion of image quality. That’s a good thing; the lo-fi look is undeniably part of Polaroid’s charm. Unfortunately, the famous Polaroid look is comprehensively stripped away by the company’s Zero Ink (ZINK) printer: even beautifully exposed high-resolution images from a current-generation Samsung smartphone are reduced to garbage that looks like it belongs in the 1990s.

Hell, even the company’s own PR company is basically phoning it in on this one. If I’m being charitable, the PRs were unaware of the camera’s selling points and unable to demo its functionalities to eager journalists. If I’m not being charitable, it’s entirely possible that they knew that the Snap Touch is utter garbage and did everything in their power to prevent me from seeing it.

The Polaroid Snap Touch is available for pre-order today, with a delivery date some time in October. Instead of separating yourself from $180 worth of your hard-earned cash, however, do yourself a favor and buy an Instax Mini 70 camera. The prints are about the same size, but if you’re going to go for the lo-fi novelty of an instant-print camera, you may as well embrace the real Polaroid look.

Ultimately, it’s ironic that a camera carrying the Polaroid brand is unable to deliver Polaroid charm. Until the company is able to deliver a camera that can, find other ways to get your instant photo kicks.

I like that it has a built-in printer so you can get your pictures developed right away. Normally I put the camera up and either forget to drop it off or I’m just too lazy to run to the store. I also like the different colors. Also, that it fits in your pocket. No more cramming one into my purse (meaning I always have to carry one). And if I don’t have a pocket there’s the wrist strap.

I love that you actually get an instant photo. I’m tired of digital photos that pile up on the computer & never get developed. This reminds me of the old 70s Instamatic that my Mom had. Remember sitting around shaking that photo to get it to develop faster, lol? I just revealed my age.

I love everything about the Polaroid Snap! The fact that I can take a pic and print it instantly is amazing! I have so many pics on my cell that I’ve been meaning to download to print and still haven’t. This will make everything so much easier.

I first noticed all the fun colors these came in, but what really caught my eye was that how easy these cameras are to use and also what they have to offer> I think its super that you can snap a picture and not have to run home to print it out.

i’m 57, I remember the polaroid camera. I remember the film seemed to cost a lot, but we loved it because the pictures were instantly “there”. Now I’ve had a digital camera for over 20 years, printing them was hard, special paper, color ink, etc. Now I can even laminate pics for the kids so they don’t ruin them like they would a paper picture, and the prices are modest compared to the 90’s. Anway, this would be fun to have just because I’d love to watch the kids (Grandkids) see the magic of “instant” printed pics. That and I just love to collect cameras. I think the price is a bit high, I could get a backup Canon digital for that price and I have no idea what the “instant” printing is about…to a wireless printer? right out of the camera? Somewhere, somehow it’s going to take paper and ink. But yes, if I were upper middle class it would be cool to have some old school type cameras around again.

Okay, I checked out the zink zero ink technology. The special 2×3 inch paper cost $25.00 per 50 sheets. Also 30 & 20 count packs. It comes to 50 cents a pic, not as bad as $1 a pic 40 yrs ago which was a lot of money. What I do like is the: SMARTPHONE COMPATIBLE – Bluetooth-Enabled Camera Integrates Printing App for iOS & Android; Edit & Add Filters, Text, Borders, Emojis, Digital Stickers & More. For me especially I would have to have a few pics with the old style polaroid border. So yes, over all it would be a great camera for that budding photographer in the family, especially during the holidays.

I absolutely LOVE that there is no ink or toner to buy! Also, it is given to you instantaneously! In this day and age, we have to get everything right NOW! haha My granddaughter would love playing with this too. God bless and Happy Holidays everyone!

Built in printer !! My mom gets so upset that we have digital photo’s but nothing she can hold in her hand and show to her friends. And as a Grandmother she loves to show off pictures of her Grandson